tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736194708119763178.post360791070310685041..comments2016-02-19T12:44:46.540-08:00Comments on Sex Under Capitalism: Daniel Tosh: STFUGLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09979387954630335889noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736194708119763178.post-45531266101637548652012-07-12T14:30:51.958-07:002012-07-12T14:30:51.958-07:00While I do appreciate Daniel Tosh&#39;s comedy, I ...While I do appreciate Daniel Tosh&#39;s comedy, I in no way condone his comments to the supposed &quot;heckler.&quot; Jokes about genocide shouldn&#39;t fly either, but comics still find a way to make it profitable and get a laugh. As a gay man, I often avoid stand-up comedy (and American comedy movies altogether, for that matter), because there&#39;s only so many times I can be called a fudgepacker before I decide enough&#39;s enough. Hey, if we&#39;re all getting laughed at, who cares? And if a gay joke happens to be funny, why not? I&#39;ll laugh. But of course it always takes the one jerk to take it too far and makes it offensive. <br /><br />There are certain subjects, however, that are just too dark and awful to make a joke about. Rape happens to be one of them. I don&#39;t understand why you need to go there. A few years ago, when I was a college freshman, a college nearby me posted an article in its newsletter entitled: &quot;Rape only hurts if you fight it.&quot; The article went on to horribly demean women and claim that rape was good for fat women because they couldn&#39;t otherwise find a man. And of course men defended this article, because it was meant to be so horrible it was funny--ever notice that women never laugh at stuff like that? It&#39;s because it&#39;s not a joke to them--they understand how awful the reality is. <br /><br />On behalf of my whole gender I would like to apologize for people like Daniel Tosh and whoever wrote that article--as well as the jerks who allowed it to be posted in the first place. I swear, there are a lot of guys out there who are just as revolted by that kind of crap as women are, and I am one of them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736194708119763178.post-42733220533823579642012-07-12T09:51:24.898-07:002012-07-12T09:51:24.898-07:00As a fan of stand-up comedy and as someone who has...As a fan of stand-up comedy and as someone who has laughed at Daniel Tosh&#39;s jokes, I really appreciate the thoughtfulness of this post. Taboo subjects are not created equal. One reason Stephen Colbert is so brilliant is because his entire comedy philosophy revolves around making fun of the powerful and satirizing hypocrisy (with much goofiness in the process, which comes from his willingness to be the butt of the joke rather than degrade others). Subjectivity is huge and comedians should say what they want to, but we should recognize that when someone uses the stage as a way to bully people who are oppressed, they need to feel the heat. And shame on great comedians like Louis CK, Patton Oswalt and Kumail Nanjiani (among others, many smart ones like Paul F Tompkins said nothing) for basically standing up for him.Courtney Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11602258118133076960noreply@blogger.com